Baglioni Chapel, Renaissance chapel in Spello, Italy

The Baglioni Chapel is a space within Santa Maria Maggiore church featuring three large painted walls showing scenes from Jesus's life: the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Shepherds, and Jesus among the Teachers. Every surface, including the ceiling, is covered with frescoes created by a Renaissance-era painter.

The fresco decoration was commissioned by Troilo Baglioni, prior of Santa Maria Maggiore and later bishop of Perugia, who died in 1506. The cycle is dated 1501, the year the work ended, though the scaffolding may already have been up in July 1496. It was Pinturicchio's last major commission in Umbria before he left for Rome and Siena, carried out quickly by his workshop painting from his drawings.

The vault's four Sibyls sit on thrones beside cartouches bearing prophecies of Christ's coming; they were largely damaged and repainted, and are perhaps by Bartolomeo Caporali, who may also have painted the grotesque candelabra along the ribs. In the Dispute with the Doctors, Troilo Baglioni appears at the left as protonotary apostolic, beside a man holding coins, the reward paid to Pinturicchio.

The painter included his self-portrait in the lower right corner of one of the frescoes and marked it with an inscription showing his name. Visitors can spot this hidden detail by looking carefully at the walls.

The floor tiles were made by the Deruta potter known as "il frate" in the later 16th century, decades after Pinturicchio finished the frescoes in 1501. Look down to see them beneath the painted walls.